my tweaks for gotomydvr service

I've been using the excellent (and free!) gotomydvr service to access tivowebplus over the internet and would like to share a couple of techniques I've used to improve my usage. (See tcf thread for background.) My internet connection drops regularly, so 1 & 2 may not be needed by everyone. #3 should be helpful to anyone using gotomydvr, however.

1. I replaced the dbclient program with a newer (0.50.1) version provided by supernaut. (attached) This eliminated the high CPU usage I was seeing when running gotomydvr. It also provided a couple of additional flags used in #2.
2. I modified the watchdog.sh and rc.gotomydvr scripts to increase the timeouts and ignore some warnings. (attached)
3. I overcame the extremely small window size by the following technique:
a) open the gotomydvr site and select your tivo as normal.
b) once the tivo is connected, I open a new page linked to https://gotomydvr.com/ This page opens without the frame, giving full-screen access to tivowebplus.
c) I created 2 quick links on my toolbar to https://gotomydvr.com/select.php and https://gotomydvr.com/. The first lets me select which of my tivos to connect to (and asks for signon if first time), the second opens the full-screen version.

These tweaks have kept my 3 tivos available for a couple of weeks now.

Please use at your own risk. If you have difficulties, just reinstall from the gotomydvr site.

A little trouble getting it going with my humble way of doing things (I'm really un-savvy), but I finally switched the dbclient and it indeed dropped my CPU usage on the 540 from 85-90% down to 2-7%. One thing I notice though is that top now updates every three seconds or so and dbclient has a new PID every time.

Hello everyone. My first post here. I'm trying to set up gotomydvr program and for some reason I can't write anything in the telnet box once connected. it won't allow me to type at all. I've tried another program called ttpro313 to try to write to my tivo with no luck. Please forgive me for being so dumb but I've been reading everything I can for the last 6 hours and haven't gotten any closer to making anything work.I'm so freaking confused.LOL

I have a series two dual tuner 80 hour tivo. It's hard wired to the network and I've used tivo desktop to pull videos from my tivo. What I'm hoping to accomplish is remotely accessing my tivo while on business trips. Is that possible or should I buy a sling box?

Please don't beat me down for this post. I'm going to apologize in advance if I've broken any rules.

Hello everyone. My first post here. I'm trying to set up gotomydvr program and for some reason I can't write anything in the telnet box once connected. it won't allow me to type at all. I've tried another program called ttpro313 to try to write to my tivo with no luck. Please forgive me for being so dumb but I've been reading everything I can for the last 6 hours and haven't gotten any closer to making anything work.I'm so freaking confused.LOL

I have a series two dual tuner 80 hour tivo. It's hard wired to the network and I've used tivo desktop to pull videos from my tivo. What I'm hoping to accomplish is remotely accessing my tivo while on business trips. Is that possible or should I buy a sling box?

Please don't beat me down for this post. I'm going to apologize in advance if I've broken any rules.

I've been using the excellent (and free!) gotomydvr service to access tivowebplus over the internet and would like to share a couple of techniques I've used to improve my usage. (See tcf thread for background.) My internet connection drops regularly, so 1 & 2 may not be needed by everyone. #3 should be helpful to anyone using gotomydvr, however.

1. I replaced the dbclient program with a newer (0.50.1) version provided by supernaut. (attached) This eliminated the high CPU usage I was seeing when running gotomydvr. It also provided a couple of additional flags used in #2.
2. I modified the watchdog.sh and rc.gotomydvr scripts to increase the timeouts and ignore some warnings. (attached)
3. I overcame the extremely small window size by the following technique:
a) open the gotomydvr site and select your tivo as normal.
b) once the tivo is connected, I open a new page linked to https://gotomydvr.com/ This page opens without the frame, giving full-screen access to tivowebplus.
c) I created 2 quick links on my toolbar to https://gotomydvr.com/select.php and https://gotomydvr.com/. The first lets me select which of my tivos to connect to (and asks for signon if first time), the second opens the full-screen version.

These tweaks have kept my 3 tivos available for a couple of weeks now.

Please use at your own risk. If you have difficulties, just reinstall from the gotomydvr site.

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SteveT,

Thanks for these contributions. I'm looking into things further and trying to integrate your changes, but so far have only had limited success. For some reason, I cannot automate the startup of dbclient with your script, but I can run it manually, but not in the background. I think it has something to do with id_rsa.db not being picked up by dbclient when it is run. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for these contributions. I'm looking into things further and trying to integrate your changes, but so far have only had limited success. For some reason, I cannot automate the startup of dbclient with your script, but I can run it manually, but not in the background. I think it has something to do with id_rsa.db not being picked up by dbclient when it is run. Any thoughts on this?

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Sorry for not noticing this question earlier, but the "noise" level on TCF is so high I don't attempt to keep up.
Unfortunately, I have nothing to suggest, as I'm no longer using gotomydvr, and was never an expert at any of the ssh or dropbear stuff anyway.

Sorry for not noticing this question earlier, but the "noise" level on TCF is so high I don't attempt to keep up.
Unfortunately, I have nothing to suggest, as I'm no longer using gotomydvr, and was never an expert at any of the ssh or dropbear stuff anyway.